Ärt
surname · Latin script
Ärt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Partly displaced native Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.
- ATAustria≈1 in 34Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 36K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 80K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ärt itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 438 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈790 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Art in US United States, HK Hong Kong, NL Netherlands and 4 more and Aert in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishart(measured from records)
- Old Frenchart(measured from records)
- Latinartem(measured from records)
From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Partly displaced native Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Russian Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ärt counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 106K | listed | Art | 67 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 291 | Art | 50 |
| US United States | 700 | 1 in 475K | 9.5K | Art | 438 |
| VN Vietnam | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Art | 27 |
| FR France | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 161K | 9 | Aert | 25 |
| BE Belgium | 325 | 1 in 36K | 325 | Art | 43 |
| AT Austria | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 51 | Art | 24 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Art | 10 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ärt is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Any species in the Fabacea family
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ärt mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Partly displaced native Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Russian Names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Ärt have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 785 people named Ärt in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled art.
- How common is the name Ärt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 700 people named Ärt in 2010, about 1 in 475 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A4rtThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ärt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.